Modelling and Simulation-Based Evaluation of Twinning Architectures and Their Deployment

Randy Paredis, Hans Vangheluwe, Hans Vangheluwe

2024

Abstract

The Twinning paradigm –subsuming Digital Models, Digital Shadows and Digital Twins– is a powerful enabler for analyzing, verifying, deploying and maintaining complex Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs). Throughout the (currently quite ad-hoc) creation of such systems, a plethora of choices impacts the functionality and performance of the realized Twinning system comprised of the actual system under study and its twin. The choices that are made have a high impact on the required investment when creating the twin, most notably on the development time and deployment cost. This is especially true when multiple iterations are needed to find the most appropriate level(s) of abstraction and detail, architecture, technologies and tools. As a core contribution, this work follows a Model-Based Systems Engineering methodology: before realizing a Twinning architecture, Discrete EVent system Specification (DEVS) models for deployed architecture alternatives are constructed and simulated, to evaluate their suitability. A simple use-case of a ship moving in one dimension is used as a running example.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Paredis R. and Vangheluwe H. (2024). Modelling and Simulation-Based Evaluation of Twinning Architectures and Their Deployment. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH; ISBN 978-989-758-708-5, SciTePress, pages 170-182. DOI: 10.5220/0012865300003758

in Bibtex Style

@conference{simultech24,
author={Randy Paredis and Hans Vangheluwe},
title={Modelling and Simulation-Based Evaluation of Twinning Architectures and Their Deployment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH},
year={2024},
pages={170-182},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012865300003758},
isbn={978-989-758-708-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH
TI - Modelling and Simulation-Based Evaluation of Twinning Architectures and Their Deployment
SN - 978-989-758-708-5
AU - Paredis R.
AU - Vangheluwe H.
PY - 2024
SP - 170
EP - 182
DO - 10.5220/0012865300003758
PB - SciTePress